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The Inventor Of The Scoville Scale Was An Early 20th-Century Pharmacologist
The first was the organoleptic test, in which he used oil to dissolve ... place on Scoville's second innovation: his eponymous Scoville scale. Read more: 16 Little-Known Facts About Salt Today ...
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Guinness World Records crowns new hottest pepper
In 1912 pharmacist Wilbur Scoville invented the Scoville Scale, which measures how many times capsaicin needs to be diluted. Capsaicin is the chemical that gives humans that burning sensation of ...
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Here's The Scientific Scale Used To Classify Spicy Food
The spiciest food on the planet is the Trinidad Scorpion, a golf-ball-sized pepper cultivatable in most parts of the world "You take a bite. It doesn't seem so bad, and then it builds and it ...
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Too hot (sauce) to handle: The spicy food trend and homegrown brands turning up the heat
No discussion on chillies or chilli peppers — the key ingredient in hot sauce — is complete without taking into account the Scoville Scale. The scale measures the pungency of chilli peppers that are ...
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Play the adorable Google Doodle game celebrating the guy who created a scale for the spiciness of peppers
The search giant is commemorating the birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacist who created the scale used to measure the hotness of different kinds of peppers back in 1912. Different ...